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Can the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B?

Radeon RX 7900 XTX × DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B8K context
YesRuns fully on the GPU
Memory at FP1616.3 GB of 24 GB
Weights 15.2 GBKV cache 0.5 GBRuntime 0.6 GB
QuantFP16Full quality
Speed~38tokens per second
Max context128Kthe model's full window
  1. FP16
  2. Q8_0
  3. Q6_K
  4. Q5_K_M
  5. Q4_K_M
  6. Q3_K_M
  7. Q2_K

Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX can run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 16.3 GB of the 24 GB available, at roughly 38 tokens/second.

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Run it with Ollama

With Ollama installed, one command downloads and starts DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B:

ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

Ollama's default download is Q4_K_M (about 5.7 GB here). You have room for FP16, which is full quality: pick that GGUF in LM Studio or from Hugging Face.

New to this? Step-by-step setup for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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Memory needed by quantization

At 8,192 tokens of context. The black line marks the 24 GB the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX can use.

QuantQualityMemoryFits?Speed
FP16Full quality16.3 GBFits~38 tok/s
Q8_0Near-lossless9.2 GBFits~71 tok/s
Q6_KExcellent7.3 GBFits~92 tok/s
Q5_K_MVery good6.5 GBFits~106 tok/s
Q4_K_MGood, most popular5.7 GBFits~125 tok/s
Q3_K_MNoticeably degraded4.8 GBFits~155 tok/s
Q2_KHeavily degraded3.9 GBFits~202 tok/s

Measured speed from real Radeon RX 7900 XTX owners

Tokens per second that people measured on their own AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, next to our estimate.

No one has measured DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX yet. The speeds above are estimates. Run the benchmark and yours becomes the first real number on this page.

Have a Radeon RX 7900 XTX? Add your real speed

One command times DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B in your own Ollama, shows you exactly what it would send, and asks before sending anything. No sign-up, no personal data.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://gpufit.dev/bench.sh | sh -s -- deepseek-r1:7b

Windows (PowerShell)

$env:GPUFIT_MODEL="deepseek-r1:7b"; irm https://gpufit.dev/bench.ps1 | iex

How the benchmark works

GPUs that run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B comfortably

Models that run well on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Frequently asked questions

Can AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B?

Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX can run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B fully in VRAM at FP16 (full quality), using about 16.3 GB of the 24 GB available, at roughly 38 tokens/second.

How much VRAM does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B need?

About 5.7 GB at Q4_K_M with 8,192 tokens of context, and about 16.3 GB at full FP16 precision.

How fast is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX?

Roughly 38 tokens per second at FP16, estimated from the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX's 960 GB/s memory bandwidth.